I find the 2013, 2016, and 2017 ACC/AHA Heart Failure Guidelines [Resources 1 thru 4] much less useful than the 2016 ESC Heart Failure Guidelines [Resources 5 + 6].
I’ve included the ACC/AHA Guidelines in my blog (my peripheral brain as we used to say in residency) just so that I’ll easily have access to them if a reason arises.
Resources:
(1) 2016 ACC/AHA/HFSA Focused Update on New Pharmacological Therapy for Heart Failure: An Update of the 2013 ACCF/AHA Guideline for the Management of Heart Failure [PubMed Citation] [Full Text HTML] [Full Text PDF]. Circulation. 2016 Sep 27;134(13):e282-93. doi: 10.1161/CIR.0000000000000435. Epub 2016 May 20.
(2) 2017 ACC/AHA/HFSA Focused Update of the 2013 ACCF/AHA
Guideline for the Management of Heart Failure [PubMed Citation] [Full Text HTML] [Full Text PDF]. Circulation. 2017 Aug 8;136(6):e137-e161. doi: 10.1161/CIR.0000000000000509. Epub 2017 Apr 28
(3) 2013 ACCF/AHA guideline for the management of heart failure: executive summary: a report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation/American Heart Association Task Force on practice guidelines [PubMed Abstract] [Full Text HTML] [Full Text PDF]. Circulation. 2013 Oct 15;128(16):1810-52. doi: 10.1161/CIR.0b013e31829e8807. Epub 2013 Jun 5.
(4) 2013 ACCF/AHA guideline for the management of heart failure: a report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation/American Heart Association Task Force on practice guidelines [PubMed Abstract] [Full Text HTML] [Full Text PDF]. Circulation. 2013 Oct 15;128(16):e240-327. doi: 10.1161/CIR.0b013e31829e8776. Epub 2013 Jun 5.
(5) 2016 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure: The Task Force for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC). Developed with the special contribution of the Heart Failure Association (HFA) of the ESC. [PubMed Citation] [Full Text HTML] [Full Text PDF]. Eur J Heart Fail. 2016 Aug;18(8):891-975. doi: 10.1002/ejhf.592. Epub 2016 May 20.
(6) 2016 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart
failure – Web Addenda [Full Text PDF]
